- "War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength."
- "Big Brother Is Watching You"
- "Under the Spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me"
- "Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same."
- "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
- "And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."